I really haven't done a lot of reading about Thomas More, so I didn't know about the annotations More apparently made on the drawing for the Holbein portrait discussed here:

Wolf Hall is wrong: Thomas More was a funny, feminist Renaissance manRead more... )

Guess who's still struggling to read Wolf Hall? (I think I'm going to set it aside soon, if I keep having this problem, because right now I'm hypersensitive to this issue.) It's just that it feels demeaning, to keep taking ideas and beliefs that would have been normal to quite a few people if not everyone, and only holding them up as silly things ( Read more... )

I know, but I've got the whole first set of DVDs out from the library.

There's a point, in one of the episodes, at which Henry says to Anne, "I love your neck."

In another episode, Henry reprimands Thomas More by saying, "You're not a saint."

...Yeah. Oh, the subtlety ( Read more... )

So I finally started watching The Tudors. I'm only three episodes in, so maybe it gets better, but so far, I am mightily unimpressed. It's not actually about historical accuracy or lack thereof; my knowledge of the intricacies of Tudor politics is not at all what it should be, sadly, so I'm not particularly concerned with that aspect, at the moment ( Read more... )

I wound up wandering into the bookstore the other day. Well, it wasn't precisely wandering, as I wanted to buy a belated birthday present for a friend, and a ticket to an upcoming bookstore event. But somehow I came out with, in addition to those two items, a copy of John Guy's new book on Thomas and Margaret More. Sigh ( Read more... )

"...what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves, and then punish them?"

*giggle*

We had lecture today on Utopia; I'll teach section on it on Monday. One hopes that in the intervening days, this quote will cease popping into my head at inappropriate times, but I seriously doubt it ( Read more... )

Having never read More's History of King Richard III, I really have no idea what I'm supposed to do with the Norton's selection from said history (which is, like Mansfield Park, not on my fields list, though at least the Norton selection is on the syllabus of the survey class I'm going to be TAing for). My entire sense of the history comes from one ( Read more... )